# Server Redirection (was Connection Redirection?)

Michael Brundage (anomaly@u.washington.edu)
Thu, 22 Feb 1996 17:18:19 PST

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    Morgan Childs wrote:
    >I'm interested in having a way to transfer what player-object a
    >connection is attached to.  This function would redirect where the
    >incoming text is handled, and call confunc on the new object.  Security
    >concerns aside, does anyone have suggestions on how to make this, so
    >player A can suddenly become player B, without logging out and back in?
    >From fiddling in database I've come to believe this could only be done by
    >writing a new function to compile into the server?

    A much more (potentially) useful capability in my mind would be a client
    that (invisibly) handles server redirection.  Then one could `walk' from one
    MOO to the next, without realizing it -- a step towards distributed multi-user
    environments.

    michael